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Rain only delays inevitable: Another Duvall HR
- Updated: June 5, 2016
CINCINNATI — Reds left fielder Adam Duvall had a lot of time to contemplate his eighth-inning at-bat against Nationals reliever Shawn Kelley on Saturday — 64 minutes of time to be exact. A rain delay put Duvall on ice before he could bat with runners on the corners in a tie game, but he didn’t dwell on the situation before him and just took a few swings in the indoor cage to stay ready.
“I didn’t want to try and overthink the at-bat,” Duvall said. “I wanted to go up there and react. I was able to do that.”
That he did. Duvall got a 1-2 hanging slider from Kelly and knew what to do. He slugged it for a three-run homer into the upper deck in left field for a 6-3 Reds win.
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“It was a big moment when we needed a really big at-bat,” Reds manager Bryan Price said. “Nobody wanted to go to extra innings, especially when we had a lead going into the eighth. Nobody wanted the momentum to shift over to Washington. It was a huge moment, and he came through.”
Duvall, who began the season as a platoon …
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